Show < HIS RECORD It is a fact which will be disputed by nobody S no-body that the moment Judge ZXE stepped I down from the bench a sigh of relief went up The people without regard to politics or religion felt that an awful load had been l lifted from the community The judge by I his harsh merciless and terrorizing course had stood stubbornly in the way of material i t progress He was a constant threat to capital h cap-ital and enterprise no one will ever know j how many years he delayed the development C develop-ment of the material resources of g this country nobody can tell how 11 much in advance of its present position posi-tion in those things which make a r state great and mighty Utah would a have been had it not been for ti this one man whose name is a synonym for a venomous hate and confessed prejudice From the time he went upon the bench tt until he left it he kept the community in a state of turmoil Business men and capitalists u capi-talists were uneasy and hesitating for they It did not know what trouble his radical course might induce Socially he drove people apart who were disposed to approach ap-proach each other and live in harmony He s caused acquaintances to be distrustful of i each other and inspired in many the hate itt which is his own characteristic passion fo When Judge ZAXE was retired to privats to life the public felt that relief had cone A and at once a better feeling manifested itself it-self among all classes interested in the welfare wel-fare of the territory Since he has been at out of power the changed and improved ni condition of things materially and socially Cl has been many times remarked There iit was bright hope for the future and an early fit and satisfactorv adjustment of the annoy T1 ing and distressed state of affairs was confidently w con-fidently expected More progress toward a happy solution of the local problem dt has been made in the few cli months since ZANE was placed 111 where he could work little harm where ho as could not be a disturbing element than Ithi during the long years that he sat upon the bench and administered the law in a way stt lea to make the great majority of the community commun-ity feel that he was the enemy to them and bent on the destruction of peace and good order flei The character of the man is forcibly illustrated Sth il-lustrated at this time He is an applicant for his old place and at once a l thrill of terror runs through the community an commun-ity The veal friends of the territory are pa c = = I I aarmed lest he shall get the appointment and restore the ugly order of things which I he instituted and maintained while chief justice To return him to the benth would be regarded a public calamity reversing wheels of progress and losing all that has been gained in these months in which he was powerless to stay the onward march Tin HEKALD cannot think that President HAKKISOX will be so thoughtless so heartless so hateful and so cold as to impose this infliction upon Utah We cannot believe that the President will knowinglyand willfully oppress op-press this community which is struggling so hard for preservation or that he will doan do-an thing to delay the solution of a problem which ho is interested in having solved quickly and in a way that will bring the least possible hardship and suffering If HAIIKISON is familiar with the career of the late chief justice if the President understands under-stands anything of the character of Judge ZAXC we feel certain that Utah will be spared the disaster which the reinstatement reinstate-ment of ZAXE would put upon it |